Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In the latest 'Sheekey Science Show on the road', I headed west to the Buck Institute for Research on Aging to have a conversation with Professor Gordon Lithgow and one of his PhD students Edward Anderton. We chat about why we age, using C.elegans as a model organism, proteostasis, sex-dependent differences and whether you can rejuvenate a worm!

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Lithgow lab - buckinstitute.org/lab/lithgow-lab


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TIMESTAMPS:
Intro - 00:00
Geroscience and why we age - 00:30
Using C. elegans (worms) as a model organism - 04:00
Interventions Testing Program - 06:30
How translatable? Stochastic aging? - 13:00
How do you study worms? - 16:30
Research areas - 19:00
Limitations - 21:45
Future potential of the worm - 25:30
Sex-dep differences - 27:30
Reprogramming in worms? - Longevity field future - 29:00

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